A highway passed
here once, doors
widened to commerce
and community. Time
and highways flee
these places
remaining only
at a distance
(like the monster you created).
© Melinda Irvine
Daily Prompt: Flee
The Monster You Created
Melinda J. Irvine is an Australian writer, poet, and blogger living between the Philippines and Australia. Mel is adopted mum to Jerry, a Filipino boy she met in 2015 while volunteering after Typhoon Yolanda. All the money she earns as a freelance writer and author get her one step closer to legally adopting Jerry — plus helping the other kids from his village go to school.